Ashford Street & Arlington Avenue

Ashford Street and Arlington Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Reformation Lutheran Church is 740 feet away. The nearest subway, Cleveland St, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cleveland St
660 feet · 3 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
960 feet
Ridgewood Av/Cleveland St · T430, T434
Within a walk
12 places
5 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ashford Street & Arlington Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cleveland St, 660 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cleveland St J
    660 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Van Siclen Av J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z
  2. Norwood Av J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Las Flores” (2007) by Amy Cheng at the Cleveland St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ridgewood Av/Cleveland St, 960 feet away, for the T430 and T434.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ridgewood Av/Cleveland St T430, T434
    960 feet
    T430 T434

Next buses at this stop

  1. T430 …
  2. T434 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 22 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Arlington Ave & Warwick St 18 docks in all
    250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2822 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
35 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and May 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Arlington Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Arlington Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Ashford Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Ashford Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Romanesque Revival, and built in 1895.

  1. Public School 108 Designated landmark
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 108 Sal Abbracciamento School
    850 feet
  2. P.S. 089 Cypress Hills School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highland Park
    930 feet
  2. Highland Park Community Garden
    930 feet
  3. Essex Street Community Garden
    1,280 feet
Show all 4
  1. Lower Highland Playground
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Arlington Library
    230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Reformation Lutheran Church Listed historic place
    740 feet
  2. St Josephs Anglican Church Trinity Church East NY House of worship
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,120 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Arlington Avenue or Ashford Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.